Fireworks

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

416

Date Released

17 Dec 1962

Date recorded

20 Nov 1962

Length of issue (in feet)

706

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Hidden Zip
2. 2River Life
3. 3Shooting Starlet
4. 4Fireworks

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

Pathe synopsis: The scene on November the Sixth, and any other day of the year, where fireworks are manufactured in a string of huts separated for safety by blast screens. We meet the man with a job every schoolboy envies - the firework tester who puts on a whizz-bang show.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture

Locations

England; Hertfordshire; Hemel Hempstead

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Tim Brinton

Length of story (in feet)

266

Story extras:

Film clip

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